There are too many coy books full of talking animals, whimsical children, and condescending adults. (Some of the most famous anima...ls in the world have talked, but they talked real talk and they weren't called silly names like Doody and Mooloo. They were called names like The Cheshire Cat and they asked sensible questions like "Did you say pig, or fig?")LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?""That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said ...the Cat."I don't much care where--" said Alice."Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat."Mas long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation."Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

"And how do you know that you're mad?""To begin with," the Cat said, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?"..."I suppose so," said Alice."Well then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Animals are ever so psychic. There are some people who just can't come in here.... The cats particularly. They seem to know. You c...an fool everybody, but landy M deary-me, you can't fool a cat. They seem to know who's not right, if you know what I mean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

If we eliminated the dog from our lives, nothing much would happen to our ecology. Independent of man, the dog is a vandal. With m...an, he does a little sheep-herding, a little watch-dogging. He helps law enforcement officers control the troublesome ghetto-dwellers and protest marchers. He sniffs out "hash" and "grass." He goes out on weekends and helps man murder other forms of life for pleasure. But mostly he is just an adjunct to man's ego.... The cat owes man nothing. Some experts estimate that there is one homeless cat managing on its own for every one with a home, which makes a total cat population in the U.S. of more than fifty million. That means the largest nonhuman animal population in the nation, short of rodents, whose number is beyond estimate. Eliminate cats from our ecology and, in a matter of weeks, we would be overrun by rodents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

And they say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known(I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone)...Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the timeJust controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »